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008			940830s1995 ncu s000 1 eng
010			_a 94034179
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020			_a080782206X _q(alk. paper)
020			_a9780807822067 _q(alk. paper)
020			_a9780807849576 _q(pbk.)
020			_a080784957X _q(pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)31171220 _z(OCoLC)52631668
050	0	0	_aPS3545.O337 _bP37 1995
082	0	0	_a813/.52 _220
092			_a813.52 _bW855p
100	1		_aWolfe, Thomas, _d1900-1938.
245	1	4	_aThe party at Jack's / _cThomas Wolfe ; edited and with an introduction by Suzanne Stutman & John L. Idol, Jr.
260			_aChapel Hill : _bUniversity of North Carolina Press, _c
300			_axxxii, 242 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aIn the summer of 1937, Thomas Wolfe was in the North Carolina mountains revising a piece about a party and subsequent fire at the Park Avenue penthouse apartment of the fictional Esther and Frederick Jack. He wrote to his agent, Elizabeth Nowell, "I think it is now a single thing, as much a single thing as anything I've ever written." Wolfe's novella affords a significant glimpse of a Depression era New York inhabited by Wall Street wheelers and dealers and the theatrical and artistic elite. Wolfe describes the Jacks and their social circle with lavish attention to mannerisms, clothing, furnishings, and other trappings of wealth and privilege, and he spreads before readers a table groaning with sumptuous food. The sharply drawn contrast between the decadence of the party-goers and the struggles of the working classes in the streets below reveals Wolfe's gifts as both a writer and a sharp social critic.
651		0	_aNew York (N.Y.) _vFiction.
650		0	_aApartment houses _vFiction.
650		0	_aEntertaining _vFiction.
650		0	_aFires _vFiction.
650		7	_aApartment houses. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00811132
650		7	_aEntertaining. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00912685
650		7	_aFires. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00925697
651		7	_aNew York (State) _zNew York. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204333
655		7	_aDidactic fiction. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01726584
655		7	_aFiction. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423787
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01726640
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2gsafd
655		7	_aDidactic fiction. _2gsafd
655		4	_aHistorical fiction.
655		4	_aDidactic fiction.
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft
655		7	_aDidactic fiction. _2lcgft
700	1		_aStutman, Suzanne.
700	1		_aIdol, John L.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aWolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938. _tParty at Jack's. _d _w(OCoLC)623501938
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